Supporting-bracket for window shades and curtains.



F. H. & A. R. w. BASSETT/ SUPPORTING BRACKET FOR WINDOW SHADES ANDCURTAINS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY I2, I91].

00 1 9 9 2 C 0 d an t H 6 i a P FENWICK H BASSETT AND ANNA R. W.BASSETT, OF NORWOOD, PENNSYLVANIA.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented net. as, rare.

Application filled May 12, 1917. Serial No. 168.271.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FENWICK H; BAssnr'r and ANNA R. W. BASSETT,citizens of the United States, residing at Norwood, county of Delaware,and State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented certain new and usefulImprovements in Supporting-Brackets for Window Shades and Curtains, ofwhich the following is a specification.

Our invention consists of improved supporting brackets for windowshadesand ourtains'. One object of our invention is to provide bracketswhichcan be easily and quickly attached to the movable sashes'of windows andwhich will be capable of supporting roller shades and curtains, thusenabling the shades and curtains to be moved bodily with the windowsashes.

Another object is to so construct our improved supporting brackets thatthey will permit sufficiently wide shades and curtains tldbe used so asto completely cover the width of the window.

A further object is to so design our improved brackets that shades andcurtains can be quickly attached thereto or removed therefrom.

A still further object is to so construct our improved brackets thatthey will be of simple construction and can be manufactured and sold ata low cost. V

These objects and other advantageous ends which will be describedhereinafter, we attain in the following manner, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings in Figure 1 is a front elevation of a portionof a window having our invention thereon. Fig. 2 is a horizontal crosssection of Fig. 1. showing in outside view, the sashes,

, brackets, and elements which they support.

of one of our iming one of our improved brackets havin a hole thereinfor the roller shade."

Referring toi'the drawings, 1 represents the window frame including aslidable upper sash 2 and a slidable lower sash 3. These cylindrical end0 a.

sash, as is usually the custom, slide between strips 4 secured tothe'oppositely disposed innersurfaces of the window frame.

A pair of our improved brackets 5 and 6 are secured to theupper portionof the sash The brackets 5 and 6 are substantiallv arm 7. The plate 5 isprovided with screw holes and is adapted to be secured to the movablesash by means of screws 8. The arm 7 has an off-set portion 9 which issufficiently far removed from the plate 5 to extend in front of thewindow frame 1 as clearly shown in Fig. 2.

The off-set portion 9 as illustrated, is made substantially at rightangles to the portion 10 of the arm 7 and has a forwardly projectingportion 11. This projecting portion 11 has a notch 12 to receive theangular end 13 of a shade roller 14 (see Fig. 1).

The projecting portion 11, at its outermost end, has a finger 15designed to project through an opening 16 in a curtain pole 17.

'A recess 18 is formedin the upper edge of the projecting portion 11 andforms a receptacle for receiving one end of the curtain pole if thelatter is not providedwith a hole similar to 16. In other'words, thecurtain pole can be supported either on the finger 15 or within therecess 18 considering that the bracket 6 also has a finger 15 and recess19 to support the opposite end of the curtain pole. The bracket 6, asabove noted, is substantially identical with the bracket 5 with theexception that instead of having the notch 12, a hole 19 is provided(see Fig. 6).

Furthermore, the portion 9 of the bracket 6 extends in an oppositedirection to that in which the portion 9 of the bracket 5 extendsinorder to permit the end of the shade roller 14 which has thecylindrical portion 20 thereon to extend beyond the opening in thewindow frame as clearly ,shown in Fig. 2,'-it being noted that thecylindrical portion 20 of the shade roller fits and is free to rotatewithin the hole .19 in the bracket 6.

We preferably secure the brackets 5 and 6 ad acent the top portion ofthe upper sash 2 and the portions 10 of the brackets are sufficientlylong to extend to the inside of the room in which the window is located.By this construction and arrangement, it is possible to lower the windowfrom the top to secure air in the room without interfering with thecurtain or shade, since the curta n and shade will be lowered with theWindow sash. Thus, our invention is of praotica use and is extremelyefficient.

While we have described our invention as taking a particular form, it.will be understood that the various parts of our invention may bechanged without departing from the spirit thereof, and hence we do notlimit ourselves to the precise construction set forth, but consider thatwe are at liberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly comewithin the scope of the, appended claim.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is:

A pair of brackets, each of said brackets having an integral portiondesigned to be secured to the movable sash of a Window; an armprojecting downwardly'from said first portion; an integral offsetportion on said arm of sufficient distance from said first portion toextend in front of the Window frame; and a projecting portion leadingfrom said offset portion, said latter projecting portion having a partadapted to support a curtain pole and another part adapted to supportthe ends of a shade roller, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FENWICK H. BASSETT. ANNA R. W. BA-SSETT. Witnesses:

MARY A. INGLAR, CHAs. E. Po'r'rs.

